RE: Ilex /shutter/Kodak lens I.D.

Hello Peter,
I've got a booklet Camera Technique (Kodak 1953). It gives information about
different Kodak lenses
for large format cameras. I posted two pages on my website as a PDF-file.
I think this is about your lens, but I'm not 100% sure.
The files are in 200 DPI so you can print the pages.
Here are the 2 links:
http://www.tegenlicht.com/camera/kodak-ektar-lens-pag57.pdf
and
http://www.tegenlicht.com/camera/kodak-ektar-lens-pag58.pdf

I hope this will help.

Have fun,

Bert from Holland
  -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
  Van: Peter McDonald [mailto:mcgordon@netspeed.com.au]
  Verzonden: dinsdag 25 november 2003 11:06
  Aan: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
  Onderwerp: Ilex /shutter/Kodak lens I.D.

  Dear List:

  I wonder if one of the more learned and erudite members of this
knowledgeable list could identify an Ilex No. 4 ACME shutter, with a Kodak
Ektar 7.5 inch focal length, with a maximum aperture of f:4.5, and a minimum
aperture of f:32 ? Facetiousness aside, the serial numbers are listed below:

  Lens serial number : EI 512
  Shutter serial number: S22-55

  There is another number on the Ilex, in much tinier lettering, which I
assume is a patent number,.
  However: 2,249,548; there are also some faded numbers which might be a
patent number, but I can't read them.

  I use the lens in my 10x8 Folmer Graflex Century Universal, serial number
16174; would any one no its approximate age?

  There are two other lenses I generally use, both stunning: A Rodenstock
Sironar f:6.8 360mm, and a Schneider Symmar, f5.6 360mm. These have given me
my best results so far with 10x8 Ziatypes.

  Thanks,

  Peter McDonald
  Canberra, Australia.
Received on Tue Nov 25 09:20:12 2003